Better avoid bay front for a week....

[ericlp]

https://www.bigislandwatch.com/2017/04/0...e-in-hilo/

Ewwwwwwww...

10K gallons of raw sewage being dumped. Signs all over and beaches closed till further notice. Even with the signs, people still swimming in water and fishing. Sigh.

[TomK]

Thanks, although I could have done without seeing the picture in that article! [xx(]

[leo]

Of course I had to take a look see after reading TomK's post. Pretty nasty. Thanks for the head's up ericlp.

[glassnumbers]

Hilo sounds kinda poopy, since they just had a 5k sewage spill in January.

http://www.staradvertiser.com/2017/01/24...ig-island/

[Durian Fiend]

Maybe it's time to outlaw sewer line hookups for new construction and mandate cesspools. []

[randomq]

Aww snap! Where's glassnumbers when you need him?

[birdmove]

Crap! I was hoping my wife and I could go to Reed's Bay beach and hang out a bit. Both of us are having health problems right now and I like to go there, maybe take a book, some lunch, and look at the sailboats. We were going there 2-3 times a week till she got to ill.I think the doctors have made progress figuring what meds work for her. Sorry to hear this about Hilo Bay.

Jon in Keaau/HPP

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

I expected that by this morning the vast forces of the Protectors would be gathering, 60,000+ Facebook "likes" arriving from parts unknown to disembark at Hilo International for "all out WAR!". Protectors had previously tried comparing the TMT to the pollution possible should the oil pipeline at Standing Rock spring a leak, and what could be more directly analogous to a broken oil pipeline than a damaged, gushing, sewage pipeline?

The Wailuku River is sacred in Hawaiian legend, and I would think dumping 10,000+ gallons of raw sewage into the home of the goddess is as great a desecration possible:

By the side of this river (Wailuku) Hina's son, Maui had his lands. In the very bed of the river, in a cave under one of the largest falls, Hina made her own home, concealed from the world by the silver veil of falling water and lulled to sleep by the continual roar of the flood falling into the deep pool below. By the side of this river, the legends say, she pounded her tapa and prepared her food. Here were the small, graceful mamake and the coarser wauke trees, from which the bark was stripped with which she made tapa cloth.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/pac/maui/maui15.htm

You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.

[Eric1600]

Yes but there were nearly 10 gallons of sewage spilled over 30 years on maunakea, so much more desecration....

[kalakoa]

dumping 10,000+ gallons of raw sewage into the home of the goddess is as great a desecration possible

Problem is, the sewage doesn't have any money....